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<title><![CDATA[Bethany McLean - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17292.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Bethany McLean]]></description><category domain="17292">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Is China Going To Control Your Medicine?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/china-biotech-pharmaceutical-development?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany McLean</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most people believe China just makes cheap, copycat drugs. But many biotech insiders know better. China's rapid rise as an industry force has the earmarks of its takeovers of other U.S. industries, writes Bethany McLean.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/covid-lockdowns-were-a-giant-experiment-it-was-a-failure/ar-AA1j5lgV</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany McLean</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On April 8, 2020, the Chinese government lifted its lockdown of Wuhan.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The True Story of the Comey Letter Debacle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/james-comey-fbi-director-letter</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany McLean</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When F.B.I. director James Comey reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton's e-mails in the final days of the campaign, many saw it as a political move that cost Clinton the presidency. But some insiders suspect Comey had a more personal concern: his own legacy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Everything You Know About Martin Shkreli Is Wrong--or Is It?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/martin-shkreli-pharmaceuticals-ceo-interview</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany McLean</author>
							<description><![CDATA["I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' So says Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old hedge-fund manager turned pharmaceutical-company C.E.O., who achieved instantaneous notoriety last fall when he acquired the U.S. rights to a lifesaving drug and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fannie &amp; Freddie, Bigger &amp; Badder Than Ever]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/opinion/fannie-and-freddie-are-back-bigger-and-badder-than-ever.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany McLean</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the financial crisis of 2008, there was one thing that almost everyone agreed on. The government-sponsored mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, had to go. While shareholders and executives reaped the profits from Fannie and Freddie in good times, taxpayers were stuck with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Accounting for the Health Care Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2013/12/obamacare-website-cgi</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany McLean</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While healthcare.gov has become a synonym for abject failure'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'move over Ishtar and Bill Buckner'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'little has been said about the Canadian company awarded the contract. CGI built its business'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'with 70,000 employees and a market cap of $11.6 billion'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'by acquiring others; but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Marissa Mayer: Yahoo's Geek Goddess]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/01/marissa-mayer-yahoo-google</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany McLean</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As one of Google'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s highest-ranking women, Marissa Mayer became a Silicon Valley superstar, but inside the search giant her dazzle sometimes wore thin, with colleagues rebelling against her imperious style. In the wake of Mayer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s jump to run the struggling Yahoo, Bethany McLean...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Suskind Portrays a Quarreling, Dysfunctional WH]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/confidence-men-wall-street-washington-and-the-education-of-a-president-by-ron-suskind/2011/09/23/gIQAHV80qK_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany McLean</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Veteran journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new book,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Confidence Men,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is in many ways an incredible piece of work. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s both a compliment and a criticism.Suskind chronicles the first two years of the Obama presidency, from its grand promises '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Too Big to Fail, a Housing Glut, Other Dilemmas]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2290510/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany McLean</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I keep a file of issues that I mean to write about one day. Since I'm about to take a short leave  from this column'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'six weeks or so'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'I'm going to take the opportunity to  do a little housekeeping. Here, in no particular order, are five  questions that have been troubling me about our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fannie and Freddie Aren't Going Anywhere]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2285233/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany McLean</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, the Obama administration finally released its plan  for the U.S. mortgage market. The authors, which include the Treasury  and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, say the reform  "dramatically transforms the role of government in the housing market"  by reducing...]]></description>
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